specializing in adolescent girls and young women's mental health

Welcome To Juno House.

Juno House™, located in Calgary, Alberta, is a private practice counselling service specializing in the unique problems and challenges that adolescent girls, young women and their families encounter in our increasingly difficult world that girls must maneuver through.

The team of specialists at Juno House believe in each person’s ability and the abilities of families to change lives. The world is not good enough; we must make it better.

If you’re interesting in financially supporting adolescent girls mental health, check out www.ArnicaFoundation.ca

Upcoming Event – Two-day clinical workshop

Neuroscience Unlocked:

A Transformative Comprehensive Clinical Framework for Trauma

In-person workshop by Ruth Lanius, M.D., Ph.D., Clinician-Scientist, Psychiatry Professor, and Harris-Woodman Chair in Mind-Body Medicine at Western University of Canada, where she is the Director of the Clinical Research Program for PTSD. Ruth has over 25 years of clinical and research experience with trauma-related disorders.

Ruth Lanius picture to use with photo credit

Workshop Description
What happens when trauma processing is rushed before clients are grounded in the present? Why do some clients destabilize despite sound interventions? Many trauma survivors have rarely experienced true safety. What does it mean, neurobiologically and experientially, to feel grounded and secure?

This workshop positions finding solid ground as the essential foundation for all trauma work. Participants will learn how trauma disrupts orienting, attachment, and bodily safety systems, and how clinicians can restore regulation and connection through sensory pathways to healing.

Clinically practical strategies, including the Finding Solid Groundprogram and parts-informed approaches, will guide participants in helping clients establish physical and internal safety, enhance presence, and build coherence. Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) will be introduced as a method to resolve traumatic shock at its neurophysiological roots, used only after stability is established, and contrasted with EMDR to clarify its unique approach.

Through theory, experiential practice, and hands-on application, attendees will leave with an actionable framework that integrates neuroscience, parts work, sensory pathways, and both bottom-up and top-down strategies. Clinicians will gain tools to reduce overwhelm, enhance readiness for trauma processing, and anchor therapy in the solid ground that makes lasting healing possible

When
Monday, April 20 and Tuesday April 21, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM daily.

Location
Hotel Arts, Calgary, AB
119 12 Ave SW
Calgary, AB, Canada
403.266.4611
info@hotelarts.ca

Registration
Early Bird Fee (cut-off date March 6, 2026): $495 per person
Regular Fee: $550 per person

Please note that the last day for registration is Thursday, April 16, 2026

Registration includes morning and afternoon coffee breaks and lunch on both days.

Register early as seating is limited to 70 attendees.

Please contact the hotel directly for current group rates, when booking please reference “Arnica Foundation.”
Hotel Arts Booking Link: Arnica Foundation

*please note, room reservations are subject to availability*

Registration

Sponsored by Arnica Foundation. Arnica Foundation invests in adolescent girls
and young women to help them grow into emotionally strong and powerful women. www.arnicafoundation.ca

Upcoming Events – Community Education Service

Growing Resilient Teens

Andrea Halwas Larsen, PhD, CT, REACE
Associate Therapist and Education Coordinator of Juno House

Before high school graduation, 1/3 of adolescent girls will experience depression, anxiety disorders, self-harm or an eating disorder. However, parents, coaches and teachers have extraordinary healing powers to support our teens as they develop into young adulthood. Resilience is not taught; it is grown in our children. There are ways that we can help our children become more resilient starting within our relationship first.
This session is facilitated by a therapist from Juno House who has years of both clinical and facilitating experience. Juno House was founded in 2008 as a Centre of Excellence for adolescent girls and young women who are experiencing anxiety-based mental health issues of self harm, obsessive compulsive disorders, depression and eating disorders.

This 90-minute session will provide participants with:

a basic introduction of interpersonal neurobiology and anxiety,
the essential role emotions play in mental well-being,
how to identify emotions in your child,
strategies to have a better relationship with your child including how to be an emotion coach.

WHEN
January 29, 2026
Presentation 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
REGISTRATION
Free

Registration

Sponsored by Arnica Foundation. Arnica Foundation invests in adolescent girls
and young women to help them grow into emotionally strong and powerful women. www.arnicafoundation.ca

Navigating Technology with our Youth

Andrea Halwas Larsen, PhD, CT, REACE
Associate Therapist and Education Coordinator of Juno House

Technology is everywhere: the good, the bad and the ugly. Our youth need to learn how to navigate this world and how to be critical about their relationship with tech. This session is not only about technology’s impact on youth, but is also about a child’s healthy brain development and the necessary parenting role in creating healthy, emotionally regulated and integrated brains. It will teach the foundation of a child’s emotional brain development, how to grow it, and how technology can dangerously hijack it

This session is facilitated by a therapist from Juno House who has years of both clinical and facilitating experience. Juno House was founded in 2008 as a Centre of Excellence for adolescent girls and young women who are experiencing anxiety-based mental health issues of self harm, obsessive compulsive disorders, depression and eating disorders.

This 90-minute session will provide participants with:

an understanding of the basic neuroscience behind healthy brain development,
the dangers of technology for healthy brain development,
technology use rules to help you and your child manage tech use,
strategies to connect to your child including how to be an emotion coach and build a relationship that can be stronger than their relationship with their tech.

WHEN
February 26, 2026
Presentation 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM

REGISTRATION
Free

Registration

Sponsored by Arnica Foundation. Arnica Foundation invests in adolescent girls
and young women to help them grow into emotionally strong and powerful women. www.arnicafoundation.ca

Growing Resilient Teens

Andrea Halwas Larsen, PhD, CT, REACE
Associate Therapist and Education Coordinator of Juno House

Before high school graduation, 1/3 of adolescent girls will experience depression, anxiety disorders, self-harm or an eating disorder. However, parents, coaches and teachers have extraordinary healing powers to support our teens as they develop into young adulthood. Resilience is not taught; it is grown in our children. There are ways that we can help our children become more resilient starting within our relationship first.
This session is facilitated by a therapist from Juno House who has years of both clinical and facilitating experience. Juno House was founded in 2008 as a Centre of Excellence for adolescent girls and young women who are experiencing anxiety-based mental health issues of self harm, obsessive compulsive disorders, depression and eating disorders.

This 90-minute session will provide participants with:

a basic introduction of interpersonal neurobiology and anxiety,
the essential role emotions play in mental well-being,
how to identify emotions in your child,
strategies to have a better relationship with your child including how to be an emotion coach.

WHEN
March 12, 2026
Presentation 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
REGISTRATION
Free

Registration

Sponsored by Arnica Foundation. Arnica Foundation invests in adolescent girls
and young women to help them grow into emotionally strong and powerful women. www.arnicafoundation.ca

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“Logic and reason can inform us, but emotions make us decide and act.”

– Antonio Damasio, Brain Researcher

“You will notice the difference the minute you walk through the front door… from the young women’s art adorning the walls, to the passion that everyone exudes about the work we do! You will sense this is all about becoming the best you can be. Parents, you will be joined in your passion to help your daughter, and you will find your own answers and support with us. We help girls and young women find their voices, and use them to take on every challenge in their world. They will speak in exclamations!!!”

Lois Sapsford

Founder, Juno House

about Us

We believe that everyone who walks through our door can find their voices, and challenge beliefs and patterns that are causing their lives to crumble. It is our job to identify those patterns and to help find new meaning in old beliefs – to rewire the brain to develop new, healthy behaviors.

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